Abstract

지반아칭을 규명하기 위해 일련의 트랩도어 모형실험을 실시하였다. 이 모형실험에서 지반아칭현상은 모형토조바닥에 작용하는 연직토압의 변화를 관찰함으로서 확인할 수 있었다. 트랩도어 재하판의 하강으로 지반변형을 발생시킴으로서 트랩도어 상부지반에 이완영역이 발생하였다. 이때 이완영역내의 응력은 지반아칭현상에 의해 트랩도어 주변의 정지영역으로 전이됨을 알 수 있었다. 즉 연직토압은 이완영역 내에서는 급격히 감소하였고 정지영역에서는 크게 증가하였다. 이완영역 내 연직토압의 최대감소율과 정지영역에서의 연직토압의 최대증가율은 지반밀도에는 영향을 받지 않았으나 트랩도어 재하폭의 크기에는 영향을 크게 받았다. 이완영역은 타원형상으로 정의할 수 있었으며 이타원의 장축은 트랩도어 중앙에서의 이완영역높이의 두 배 크기에 해당하였고 단축은 트랩도어 폭 크기에 해당하였다. 여기서 트랩도어 중앙에서의 이완영역높이는 트랩도어 폭의 1.5배 크기로 나타났다. A series of trapdoor model tests was systematically performed in order to investigate soil arching. The mobilized soil arching was clearly observed by change of the vertical earth pressure loaded on trapdoor of soil container box. A slow decent of the loading plate at the trapdoor results in loosening zone over the trapdoor and the stress in this loosening zone was transferred to the stationary zone in the vicinity of the trapdoor. In particular, it was observed that the vertical earth pressure rapidly decreased in the loosening zone and increased in the stationary zone at the trapdoor. Both the maximum decreasing rate of the vertical earth pressure in the loosening zone and the increasing rate of the vertical earth pressure in the stationary zone were not influenced by the ground density, but affected by the size of the trapdoor. The loosening zone could be defined by the elliptical configuration, in which the major axis was twice as long as the height of the loosening zone at the center of trapdoor and the minor axis was the same as the width of trapdoor. The height of loosening zone at the center of trapdoor was one and a half times as long as the width of trapdoor loading plate.

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